CHAPTER II. THE LYRE-WAKE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 96, 27 February 1875, Page 11

CHAPTER 11. THE LYRE-WAKE.

Many were the masses that were said and the dirges sung for Henry's soul. He died on the 28th January; it was not till the 14th February that his remains were removed from cJiapele ardente at Westminster for final interment at Windsor. Among the ruins of the devastated convent of Sion home, in the desecrated chapel, hastily decorated and draped with black for the occasion, the coffin of the monarch was placed, for the night. There was a midnight dirge ; but mourners and cloisters quitted the chapel when it was concluded. The king was dead, and awful superstition possessed men's minds. The hired mourners cared not to continue their dreadful watch throughout the night ; a banner did not flutter, nor the light of a taper waver, but the horrid thought of ghostly influence made their hearts grow Cjull. It was in the chapel of the ruined convent that Henry rested on his bier. The ruined convent from which he had driven the poor nuns ; the ruined convent said to be haunted by the phantom of his ill-fated young wife, Katherine Howard, who had been imprisoned there. So while the dark waters of the Thames rolled sluggliahly by,